11-14 Thunderbolts win SC title a second time

THSC swimmers roll to victory in the Short Course Championships

CORVALLIS - The Thunderbolts blasted the rest of the state impressively at the Oregon Swimming 11-14 Short Course Championships in late-February.

The Thunderbolts' 59 swimmers earned the team a first-place finish for the second year in a row.

Thunderbolts swimmers topped the podium in 30 individual events and six relays.

Individual event champions were: Iseult McMahon (11) in the 500-yard free; Juame Martinez-Clavo (11) in the 100 IM; Anthony Nosack (11) in the 500 free, 100 back, 50 and 100 breaststroke, and 200 IM; Joshua Yadao (11) in the 50, 100 and 200 free, 50 and 100 butterfly; Paolo Casas (12) in the 100 and 200 IM; Myron Shen (12) in the 50, 100, 200 and 500 free, and 50 back; Tiffany Zhao (13) in the 100 and 200 breaststroke; Alex LaRosa (13) in the 100 and 200 free, and 100 and 200 fly, and 200 and 400 IM; Prudence Rooker (14) in the 400 IM; and Jonathan Zoucha (14) in the 100 and 200 fly.

The Thunderbolts also won two relays where they also broke Oregon Swimming records and earned national rankings. The 11-12 boys 400 free relay team of Paolo Casas, Sean Calkins, Joshua Yadao and Myron Shen clocked a time of 3 minutes, 39.94 seconds to break the previous record of 3:41.43 set by the Thunderbolts in 2010, and ranks them second in nation.

The 13-14 boys 800 free relay team of Ben Buchalski, Alex LaRosa, Cortlandt Nelsen and Jonathan Zoucha swam 7:11.33, shattered the previous record (set by the Hillsboro Heat in 2007) by 11 seconds, and is ranked first in the nation.